Talk:Secor, Iowa

A fact from Secor, Iowa appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that workers had to somersault to safety when the Secor Bridge collapsed in 1911?

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propose merger with Xenia, Hardin County, Iowa, per 1911 book, Past and Present of Hardin County, Iowa[edit]

@User:Gilliam, @User:TheCatalyst31 , I was working on expanding Xenia, Hardin County, Iowa when I read in one of the sources that Xenia and Secor, Iowa, are the same community. There is a slight difference in coordinates from GNIS, but it's about 2,000 feet. The source is on page 32 of Past and Present of Hardin County, Iowa. If you two are not opposed, I can perform a history merger on the two articles, preserving both sets of copyrights. Do you have objections to a proposed merger? Firsfron of Ronchester 05:04, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No objection from me to merge. Thanks for helping research.– Gilliam (talk) 01:13, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No objection from me. Good catch. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 02:13, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the swift response, guys. I'll go ahead and history merge these two articles, and then work on expanding the content a bit; there's a lot more that can be said about this community. Thanks for the collaboration. :) Firsfron of Ronchester 02:30, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 16:49, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Xenia (Secor) Iowa, in 1892

... that Secor, a ghost town in Iowa, has had three names? Source: https://access-newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/us/iowa/iowa-falls/iowa-falls-hardin-county-times/1955/06-14/page-64/
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5x expanded by Firsfron (talk). Self-nominated at 22:57, 3 December 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image eligibility:

Freely licensed:
Used in article:
Clear at 100px: - n

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Article and nomination look good to me, Earwig checks out, and no QPQ is required as nom has 0 DYK credits. The only thing I'm not satisfied with is the image, which is not clearly discernable at the size displayed here. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 06:44, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to butt in, but does this pass likely to be perceived as unusual or intriguing by readers with no special knowledge or interest? A town having had three names is, I guess, a little unusual, but it's true of very many places. What about
ALT1: ... that workers had to somersault to safety when the Secor Bridge collapsed in 1911?
-- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 04:11, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Firsfron: how do you feel about this proposed hook? PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 06:40, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@PCN02WPS: Looks like Firsfron is inactive – would you be willing to review ALT1, and if the nominator objects, we'll circle back? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 09:50, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- @Theleekycauldron: thank you for the heads up, I'm cool with ALT1 personally, mentioned and cited in the article. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 21:01, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I AGF on ALT1 source. I cannot access it at the moment. Bruxton (talk) 16:49, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]